** Myth/PaulBunyan, the giant lumberjack, who cut timber all across the continental United States with his blue ox Babe.** Pecos Bill, the archetypal cowboy, and the love of his life Slue-Foot Sue.

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** Myth/PaulBunyan, the giant lumberjack, who cut timber all across the continental United States with his blue ox Babe.Babe. He is the UrExample, many of the below figures are considered to be [[FountainOfExpies imitators]].** Pecos Bill, the archetypal cowboy, and the love of his life Slue-Foot Sue. Raised by coyotes, rode a cougar, and had a live snake for a lasso.** Alfred Bulltop Stormalong, a giant merchant seaman, who sailed around the world in a clipper so large it nearly scraped the sun and moon.

** Annie Christmas, former slave, keel boat pilot, and strongest woman on the Mississippi.** Myth/CrookedMick, a traditional Tall Tale character from Australia.

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** Annie Christmas, former slave, giantess, keel boat pilot, and strongest woman on the Mississippi.** Myth/CrookedMick, a traditional Tall Tale character from Australia.Australia, a cattle drover and shepherd.** Bowleg Bill, a Wyoming cowboy who became a sailor and rode tunas and whales, basically a cross between Pecos Bill and Stormalong.** Joe Magarac, a Croatian born steelworker in Pittsburgh who worked nonstop and was actually made of steel.* Febold Feboldson, a Swedish rain maker in Nebraska * Johnny Kaw, a giant farmer whose plowing formed the Kansas landscape

** John HenryHenry, a steel driver and former slave, said to have been born with a hammer in his hand and died after beating a machine.** Casey JonesJones, a train engineer who miraculously stopped his train, saving the passengers but getting killed in the process.** Mike FinkFink, a combative keel boat captain** Daniel BooneBoone, legendary frontiersman

* ''Bush Tucker Man'' mentions a story told in Northern Territory, Australia about a mosquito that was so big it landed at Darwin airport and was filled with 100 gallons of fuel before anyone realised it wasn't a mosquito. The host Les Hiddins is skeptical. "I've never seen a mosquito that big. Ninety gallons, but not a hundred."

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* ''Bush ''The Bush Tucker Man'' mentions a story told in Northern Territory, Australia about a mosquito that was so big it landed at Darwin airport and was filled with 100 gallons of fuel before anyone realised it wasn't a mosquito. The host Les Hiddins is skeptical. "I've never seen a mosquito that big. Ninety gallons, but not a hundred."

* ''Bush Tucker Man'' mentions a story told in Northern Territory, Australia about a mosquito that was so big it landed at Darwin airport and was filled with 100 gallons of fuel before anyone realised it wasn't a mosquito. The host Les Hiddens is skeptical. "I've never seen a mosquito that big. Ninety gallons, but not a hundred."

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* ''Bush Tucker Man'' mentions a story told in Northern Territory, Australia about a mosquito that was so big it landed at Darwin airport and was filled with 100 gallons of fuel before anyone realised it wasn't a mosquito. The host Les Hiddens Hiddins is skeptical. "I've never seen a mosquito that big. Ninety gallons, but not a hundred."

* ''Bush Tucker Man'' mentions at story told in Northern Territory, Australia about a mosquito that was so big it landed at Darwin airport and was filled with 100 gallons of fuel before anyone realised it wasn't a mosquito. The host Les Hiddens is skeptical. "I've never seen a mosquito that big. Ninety gallons, but not a hundred."

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* ''Bush Tucker Man'' mentions at a story told in Northern Territory, Australia about a mosquito that was so big it landed at Darwin airport and was filled with 100 gallons of fuel before anyone realised it wasn't a mosquito. The host Les Hiddens is skeptical. "I've never seen a mosquito that big. Ninety gallons, but not a hundred."

* ''Bush Tucker Man'' mentions at story told in Northern Territory, Australia about a mosquito that was so big it landed at Darwin airport and was filled with 100 gallons of fuel before anyone realised it wasn't a mosquito. The host Les Hiddens is skeptical. "I've never seen a mosquito that big. Ninety gallons, but not a hundred."

* Music/PeterPaulAndMary's "Autumn to May" is about several outlandish animals which the narrator allegedly possessed, namely a dog with fourteen-yard-long legs and ears they could ride on, a clothed talking frog that went sailing in a shoe, flying sheep which delivered gold and candy and a swan which hatched an oyster shell.* "Derby Ram" is about a comically-large ram whose more notable details include horns that reach the moon, eyes as big as soccer balls and a tail that could be used as a church bell clapper.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TennesseeTuxedoAndHisTales The World Of Commander McBragg]]'', loosely based on Baron Munchausen, consisted of the eponymous [=McBragg=] telling ridiculous tall tales about himself. [[ExpositoryThemeTune Or so says the brag of McBragg.]]

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* ''[[WesternAnimation/TennesseeTuxedoAndHisTales The World Of Commander McBragg]]'', loosely based on Baron Munchausen, consisted of the eponymous [=McBragg=] telling ridiculous tall tales about himself.himself, including digging the Grand Canyon, building the Great Pyramid and digging the Panama Canal. [[ExpositoryThemeTune Or so says the brag of McBragg.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': The episode "Short Tall Tales" revolves around Grim telling the [[FracturedFairyTale fractured]] tall tales of Pecos Billy, [[GenderFlip Paula Bunyan]] (Mandy) and John Henry (Irwin), and how he played a part in each of them.

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